[1] As well as for its initial Broadway run, Brooks, Mills, Thompson, and Wilson all continued performing in future versions of the show: its pairing-up with a British production, Dover Street to Dixie, in London, and the pairing-up with a one-act white revue, Dixie to Broadway, on Times Square.
[1] Vaudeville blues singers Gladys Bryant and Lena Wilson were also a part of the London revue tour but received no mention in British publications.
[1] It featured Hamtree Harrington[1] and Cora Green,[1] Will Vodery, as musical director,[1] and his Orchestra,[1] tap dancers Willie Covan[1] & Ulysses "Slow Kid" Thompson,[1] whom Variety described as "Effortless steppers who mix some light trick stuff in with soft-shoe rhythmatics".
[3] With Florence Mills, as usual as the star attraction, Dixie to Broadway featured her singing "I'm a Little Blackbird Looking for a Bluebird",[1] with lyrics by Grant Clarke[4] and Roy Turk,[4] and music by Tin Pan Alley songwriter George W. Meyer,[4] and Arthur Johnston.
[4] which, a couple of months later (17 December 1924), would first be recorded for the OKeh label by Eva Taylor, accompanied by Clarence Williams’ Blue Five (Clarence Williams (piano); Louis Armstrong (cornet); Charlie Irvis (trombone); Sidney Bechet (soprano saxophone), and Buddy Christian (banjo).